Holly Madison

[Erika]

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PROFESSION:
Reality star

PARTNER:
Dmitry Chaplin

BACKGROUND:
Holly's work on the hit reality show The Girls Next Door catapulted her into the mainstream and into the homes of millions of viewers. Her sense of humor, hard work and "hometown" common sense won the hearts and minds of America and made Holly one of the most popular women in the world today. Holly worked as a photo editor for Playboy Magazine for several years; directing, producing and editing the Playmate pictorials for the magazine each month. She has co-written a book The Girls Next Door with her fellow girlfriends Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson and has made numerous television and movie appearances, such as House Bunny, Scary Movie 4, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, General Hospital, The Apprentice and many others. She teams with 2006 U.S. National finalist Dmitry Chaplin, who makes his Dancing with the Stars debut.

NOTE: Holly Madison stepped in for singer-songwriter Jewel, who was diagnosed with a fractured tibia in both legs while training and had to withdraw from the competition.

[Erika]

'Dancing with the Stars' Holly Madison hobbled with painful rib injury

By John Bracchitta, 03/27/2009

Dancing with the Stars' injury curse has now spread beyond the show's original cast members and is now also beginning to hit the last-minute replacements for the eighth season's already withdrawn contestants.

The Girls Next Door star Holly Madison -- who replaced Jewel Kilcher when the singer was forced to withdraw after fracturing tibias in both of her legs prior to the season's first performance show -- has come down with a injury of her own and is suffering from a painful rib injury that is effecting her rehearsals, People reported Thursday evening.

According to Madison's representative, the former Playboy playmate first experienced discomfort while practicing for her samba performance with professional partner Dmitry Chaplin last week. While she was able to dance through the injury on the performance and results show, where she had to perform the dance again during the Dance Off to avoid elimination, the injury has since become too much for her to bare.
"[Thursday] she was practicing the tango and the pain was so bad that it made it basically impossible for her to move," her representative told People.

Although a doctor's visit determined that Madison doesn't have a broken rib, she is still dealing with significant pain.

"While she is not suffering a broken rib, she does continue to feel a great deal of discomfort and was prescribed pain medication," Madison's representative said.

Madison remains "committed to the show" and still hopes to dance on Monday's performance show despite the injury, according to her representative.

"She was in a lot of pain last week," he told People. "But you know, Holly's a gamer. She wants to do this so bad and she wants to do well. She really didn't tell a lot of people how badly she was injured because she doesn't want to give herself any excuses."
Source: Realitytvworld.com

[Erika]

The Girls Next Door' star Holly Madison joining topless Vegas show


UPI News Service, 05/16/2009

Holly Madison, a Playboy playmate and "Girls Next Door" co-star, has joined a Las Vegas show with topless dancers, her representative says.


An unidentified representative for the 30-year-old, who appeared in "Girls" with fellow playmates Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson, confirmed Madison will go topless in live performances of PEEPSHOW, People.com reported Friday.

Madison will be one of the two main performers, meaning she and fellow show star Melanie Brown could remain covered while performing.

But Madison, who has appeared nude in Playboy multiple times, agreed to go topless just like her supporting dancers, her representative told People.
No date for Madison's first PEEPSHOW performance was given.

[mkwdood]

yeah, why cover up now? the ship has sailed on that one